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Safeguard   /sˈeɪfgˌɑrd/   Listen
Safeguard

verb
1.
Make safe.
2.
Escort safely.
noun
1.
A precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc..  Synonyms: guard, precaution.  "An insurance policy is a good safeguard" , "We let our guard down"
2.
A document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war.  Synonym: safe-conduct.






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"Safeguard" Quotes from Famous Books



... primitive Gaels of the Highlands for their warrior strength and their fealty, and to the enlightened Scots of Ulster for their enterprise and for their sacrifice unto blood that free conscience and just laws might promote the progress and safeguard the intercourse of their kind. Now let us take up for a moment Brother Grube's "Journal" even as we welcome, perhaps the more gratefully, the mild light of evening after the flooding sun, or as our hearts, when too strongly stirred by the deeds of men, turn for rest to the serene ...
— Pioneers of the Old Southwest - A Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground • Constance Lindsay Skinner

... town in New Zealand. Whatever may be said in theory, however, the fact that prosecutions can be brought only with the leave of the Attorney-General is, we think, a sufficient guarantee that the law will be applied uniformly and reasonably. Moreover, there is a further safeguard in the right of appeal to the Supreme Court against all decisions of ...
— Report of the Juvenile Delinquency Committee • Ronald Macmillan Algie

... town were unarmed. It was one of the first rules of the Committee that no spy entering the town should carry arms of any description, this rule having been made to safeguard them from death in the event of their ...
— The Petticoat Commando - Boer Women in Secret Service • Johanna Brandt

... deprivation which makes us defenceless, proves our safeguard. This is very proper in Glo'ster, newly maimed by the evulsion of ...
— Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies • Samuel Johnson

... outreach thine eye, No night obscure thy endless day: Be this my comfort when I sigh, Be this my safeguard ...
— Hymns for Christian Devotion - Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination • J.G. Adams


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